It’s possible that the Ordovician craters in Earth’s rock record were created by another astronomical phenomenon, like asteroid debris forming a miniature moon that then broke apart.

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

When he saw the ripples encased within them, Jay Anderson knew there was something unique about the pieces of rock dislodged from a boulder in his Steele County gravel pit. Months later, those ripples ...

Serendipitously, this collision also resulted in abundant fossil meteorites in Ordovician limestones in Sweden. In determining the source asteroid body, these reports provide the foundations for ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists.

Uncover the golden fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, a 450-million-year-old arthropod, offering rare insights into ancient ...

“Although pyrite forms very commonly today in fine-grained marine rocks, pyritization of soft parts of organisms ... and were ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

Beecher’s Trilobite Bed is located just outside Rome, New York, and multiple species of fossilized trilobites, a prehistoric ...

They had mostly gone extinct by the Ordovician Period (485-443 million ... Bed fossil site in central New York State. This layer of rock contains multiple well-preserved trilobites and other ...